I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Poets are born, not paid.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.